Poaceae
Trailing crabgrass
Digitaria radicosa
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Digitaria
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Common names
By language (3)
- Chinese
- 紅尾翎, 红尾翎, 小马唐
- English
- Trailing crabgrass
- Japanese
- コメヒシバ
Synonyms
- Digitaria chinensis var. hirsuta Ohwi
- Digitaria formosana Rendle
- Digitaria formosana var. hirsuta (Honda) Henrard
- Digitaria propinqua Gaudich.
- Digitaria radicosa var. hirsuta (Ohwi) C.C.Hsu
- Digitaria sanguinalis var. multinervis (Honda) Kitag.
- Digitaria sanguinalis var. timorensis (Kunth) Hayata
- Digitaria tenuispica Rendle
- Digitaria timorensis (Kunth) Balansa
- Digitaria timorensis subsp. kunthiana Henrard
- Digitaria timorensis subsp. timorensis
- Digitaria timorensis var. hirsuta (Ohwi) Henrard
- Digitaria timorensis var. timorensis
- Panicum formosanum (Rendle) Makino & Nemoto
- Panicum formosanum var. hirsuta (Honda) Makino & Nemoto
- Panicum formosanum var. hirsutum (Honda) Makino & Nemoto
- Panicum radicosum J.Presl
- Panicum radicosum var. procerior Fern.-Vill.
- Panicum radicosum var. procerior J.Presl
- Panicum sanguinale var. multinerve (Honda) Makino & Nemoto
- Panicum sanguinale var. timorense (Kunth) Hack.
- Panicum timorense Kunth
- Paspalum sanguinale var. timorense (Kunth) A.Camus
- Spartina glabriuscula Hassk.
- Syntherisma formosana subsp. hirsuta (Honda) Masamura & Yanagih.
- Syntherisma formosana var. hirsuta Honda
- Syntherisma formosanum (Rendle) Honda
- Syntherisma formosanum subsp. hirsutum (Honda) Masam. & Yanagih.
- Syntherisma formosanum var. hirsutum Honda
- Syntherisma multinerve (Honda) Honda
- Syntherisma multinervis (Honda) Honda
- Syntherisma sanguinale var. multinerve Honda
- Syntherisma sanguinalis var. multinervis Honda
- Syntherisma tenuispicum (Rendle) Keng
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Hawaii: introduced, Pacific Basin: introduced, Pacific Basin: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: scallions, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: chiuluan, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.